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UK government ignored our letters, Welsh minister tells Covid inquiry

Vaughan Gething accuses UK ministers including Matt Hancock of hampering Welsh pandemic prep by refusing to engage

UK government ignored our letters, Welsh minister tells Covid inquiry
Vaughan Gething, then Welsh health minister, gives a Covid-19 briefing in October 2020 | Matthew Horwood / Getty Images
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The Welsh government’s former health minister has accused Westminster of ignoring letters and stonewalling meeting requests – and said it hampered the nation’s preparation for a pandemic.

Vaughan Gething, minister for health and social services from 2016 to 2021, told the UK’s official Covid inquiry that Westminster “did not take ministers and officials from the devolved governments seriously”.